Job 10:20
Are my days not few? Cease then, and put from me, || And I brighten up a little,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
In Context
19I am as [if] I had not been, || I am brought from the belly to the grave,
21Before I go, and do not return, || To a land of darkness and death-shade,
Cross References
Job 7:6My days swifter than a loom, || And they are consumed without hope.
Job 7:16I have wasted away—I do not live for all time. Cease from me, for my days [are] vanity.
Job 8:9For we [are] of yesterday, and we do not know, || For our days [are] a shadow on earth.
Job 13:21Put Your hand far off from me, || And do not let Your terror terrify me.
Psalms 39:5Behold, You have made my days handbreadths, || And my age [is] as nothing before You, || Only, every man set up [is] all vanity. Selah.
Psalms 103:15Mortal man! His days [are] as grass, || He flourishes as a flower of the field;
Matthew Henry on Job 10:15-22
14 If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity. 15 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction; 16 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou showest thyself marvellous upon me. 17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me. 18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh… Read the whole commentary →